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Prof. Dr. Aileen Oeberst

Prof. Dr. Aileen Oeberst

Prof. Dr. Aileen Oeberst

Campus Golm
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Haus 14, Raum 5.03

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Akademischer Werdegang

  • Seit 04 / 2024 Professorin für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Potsdam
  • 03/19 - 03/2024 Professorin für (Medien)Psychologie, FernUniversität Hagen
  • 2017 - 2021 Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe „Collaborative Biases“ (IWM, Tübingen)
  • 2016 – 2019 Junior-Professorin für Forensische Psychologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
  • 2011 – 2016 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (PostDoc) am Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien Tübingen
  • 2008 – 2011 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Sozialpsychologie), Universität Osnabrück
  • 2005 – 2008 Promotionsstipendiatin im DFG-geförderten Graduiertenkolleg „Integrative Kompetenzen und Wohlbefinden“, Universität Osnabrück [06/2006-05/2007 Elternzeit]

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Verzerrungen in der Informationsverarbeitung
  • Medienrepräsentation (von Ereignissen, Verbrechen, Kriminellen)
  • Kollektive Erinnerungen
  • Erkennung und Umkehrung sozialer Einflüsse auf das Gedächtnis
  • Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung

Links

Publikationen

Komplettes Publikationsverzeichnis (pdf, 203 KB)

 

Zeitschriftenartikel (peer reviewed) Stand November 2025

  • Oeberst, A., Mischkowski, D., & Imhoff, R. (in press). Belief-consistent information processing or coherence-based reasoning: Integrating two parsimonious frameworks for biases. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70006
  • Imhoff, R., & Oeberst, A. (2025). Understanding belief-behavior correspondence requires more conceptual clarity. Psychological Inquiry, 36(1), 36-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2025.2482357 
  • Blank, H., & Oeberst, A. (2025). Exploring common ground in the repressed vs. false memories debate. Legal and Criminological Psychology,30(Suppl. 1), 1-4.  https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12307 
  • Wachendörfer, M. M., & Oeberst, A. (2024). Differences between true and false memories using the Criteria-Based Content Analysis. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38, e4246. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4246 
  • Oeberst, A. & Oberlader, V. (2024). Degrees of Freedom as breeding ground for biases – a threat to forensic practice. Law and Human Behavior, 48(5-6), 519-530. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000579 
  • Oeberst, A., Wachendörfer, M. M., & Suchotzki, K. (2024). Falsche Erinnerungen in der Forschung und Glaubhaftigkeitsbegutachtung: Replik zum Beitrag von Jäckel & Orth (2021). Rechtspsychologie, 2, 205-226. https://doi.org/10.5771/2365-1083-2024-2-205 
  • Imhoff, R., Meuer, M., Oeberst, A. & Mokros, A. (2024). Gibt es organisierten rituellen Kindesmissbrauch? InMind, 2. https://de.in-mind.org/article/gibt-es-organisierten-rituellen-kindesmissbrauch 
  • Mokros, A., Schemmel, J., Oeberst, A., Körner, A., Imhoff, R., Suchotzki, K., Oberlader, V., Banse, R., Kannegießer, A., Gubi-Kelm, S., Lehmann, R. & Volbert, R. (2024). Entgegnung: Unterschiedliche Überzeugungen, aber nur eine Wahrheit [Reply: Different convictions, but only one truth]. Psychologische Rundschau [Vorab-Onlinepublikation]. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000677 
  • Mokros, A., Schemmel, J., Körner, A., Oeberst, A., Imhoff, R., Suchotzki, K., Oberlader, V., Banse, R., Kannegießer, A., Gubi-Kelm, S., Lehmann, R. & Volbert, R. (2024). Rituelle sexuelle Gewalt: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit fragwürdigen empirischen Belegen für ein fragliches Phänomen [Ritual sexual violence: A critical appraisal of dubious empirical evidence for a doubtful phenomenon]. Psychologische Rundschau [Vorab-Onlinepublikation].  https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000663 
  • Oeberst, A. & Ridderbecks, T. (2024). Self-selection: How article category in Wikipedia determines the heterogeneity of its authors. Scientific Reports, 14, 740. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50448-y 
  • Krebs, M.-C., Oeberst, A.* & von der Beck, I. (2024). The wisdom of the crowd is not a foregone conclusion. Effects of Self-Selection on (collaborative) knowledge construction. Topics in Cognitive Science, 16(2), 206-224. https://doi.org./10.1111/tops.12647   *shared first authorship 
  • Wachendörfer, M. M., & Oeberst, A. (2023). Distinguishing between true and false memories: A scoping review. European Psychologist, 28(4), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000513 
  • Jacobs, S., Schnepf, J., Wachendörfer, M. M., & Oeberst, A. (2023). Auswirkungen impliziter Plausibilitätserwartungen über das Nachtatverhalten von Vergewaltigungsopfern auf die Glaubwürdigkeits- und Glaubhaftigkeitsbeurteilung durch Laien. Rechtspsychologie, 9(4), 468-489. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/2365-1083-2023-4-468 
  • Oeberst, A., & Imhoff, R. (2023). Towards parsimony in bias research. Proposing a common framework of belief-consistent information processing. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 18(6), 1464-1487. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221148147 
  • Meuer, M., Nestler, S., & Oeberst, A. (2023). What determines hindsight bias in written work? One field and three experimental studies in the context of Wikipedia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(2), 239-258. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000445 
  • Meuer, M., Oeberst, A., & Imhoff, R. (2022). How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non-conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real-world online articles. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(2), 288-306. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2903 
  • Oeberst, A., & Goeckenjan, I. (2022). May a witness challenge the conviction? (Some) Confirmation bias in law students and judges. Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie, 16, 293-299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11757-022-00738-4 
  •  Meuthen, D. & Oeberst, A. (2022). Does word order predict ethnocentric helping behavior? Results of a ‘lost letter’ field experiment in Berlin. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null-Hypothesis, 18, 57-66. https://www.jasnh.com/pdf/Vol18-No2-article2.pdf 
  • Oeberst, A., Wachendörfer, M., Imhoff, R., & Blank, H. (2021). Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be reversed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(13), e2026447118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026447118 
  • Meuer, M., Imhoff, R., & Oeberst, A. (2021). Believe it or not – No support for an effect of providing explanatory or threat-related information on conspiracy theories’ credibility. International Review of Social Psychology, 34, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.587 
  • Meuer, M., von der Beck, I., Nestler, S., & Oeberst, A. (2021). What drives increases in hindsight impressions after the reception of biased media content? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27, 461-472. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000353 
  • Meuer, M., Nestler, S., & Oeberst, A. (2021). Debiasing Media Articles – Reducing Hindsight Bias in the Production of Written Work. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10, 453-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.12.006 
  • Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., Ihme, T. A., Matschke, C., & Cress, U. (2020). Collectively biased representations of the past: Ingroup bias in Wikipedia articles about inter-group conflicts. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59(4), 791-818. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12356 
  • Alvarez, G., Oeberst, A., Cress, U. & Ferrari, L. (2020). Discourse analysis of ingroup bias in English and Spanish Wikipedia articles about international conflicts. Discourse, Context & Media, 35, 100391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2020.100391 
  • Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., Cress, U., & Nestler, S. (2020). Wikipedia outperforms individuals when it comes to hindsight bias. Psychological Research, 84(6), 1517-1527. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01165-7 
  • Stürmer, S., Corcoran, K., Häfner, M., Kauff, M., & Oeberst, A. (2019). Rechtspsychologische Expertise erfordert keine Approbation, sondern starke psychologische Grundlagenfächer! Kommentar zu Okulicz-Kozaryn et al. Psychologische Rundschau, 70(4). https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000458
  • Greving, H., Kimmerle, J., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2019). Emotions in Wikipedia: The role of intended negative events in the expression of sadness and anger in online peer production. Behaviour & Information Technology, 38(8), 796-806. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2018.1554702 
  • Oeberst, A. (2019). Der Rückschaufehler im juristischen Kontext: Relevante psychologische Forschung, begründete Spekulationen und Schlussfolgerungen für die Praxis. Rechtswissenschaft, 10, 180-203. https://doi.org/10.5771/1868-8098-2019-2-180 
  • von der Beck, I., Cress, U., & Oeberst, A. (2019). Is there hindsight bias without real hindsight? Conjectures are sufficient to elicit hindsight bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25, 88-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000185 
  • Oeberst, A., & Matschke, C. (2019). Black sheep are not black in Wikipedia. Comparing descriptions of perpetrators in the language version of the perpetrator in-group to other (out-group) language versions. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null-Hypothesis, 15, 107-120. https://www.jasnh.com/pdf/Vol15-No2-article6.pdf 
  • Greving, H., Oeberst, A., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2018). Emotional content in Wikipedia articles on negative man-made and nature-made events. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 37, 267-287. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X17717568 
  • Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., Cress, U., Back, M. D., & Nestler, S. (2018). Biases in the production and reception of collective knowledge: The case of hindsight bias in Wikipedia. Psychological Research, 82, 1010-1026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0865-7 
  • Oeberst, A. & Matschke, C. (2017). Word order and world order. Titles of intergroup conflicts may increase ethnocentrism by mentioning the in-group first. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 672-690. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000300 
  • Stürmer, S., Oeberst, A., Trötschel, R., & Decker, O. (2017). Early-career researchers‘ perceptions of the prevalence of questionable research practices, potential causes and open science. Social Psychology, 48, 365-371. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000324 
  • Lamberty, P., Hellmann, J. H., & Oeberst, A. (2017). The winner knew it all? Conspiracy beliefs and hindsight perspective after the 2016 US general election. Personality and Individual Differences, 123, 236-240. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.033
  • von der Beck, I., Oeberst, A., Nestler, S., & Cress, U. (2017). Cultural interpretations of the past. Hindsight bias after reading Wikipedia articles in a cross-cultural sample. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 315-325. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3329 
  • Jirschitzka, J., Oeberst, A.*, Göllner, R., & Cress, U. (2017). Inter-rater agreement and construct validity of reviews in an interdisciplinary field. Scientometrics, 113, 1059-1092. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2516-6   *shared first authorship 
  • Nestler, S., Leckelt, M., Back, M. D., von der Beck, I., Cress, U., & Oeberst, A. (2017). Produktion von naturwissenschaftlichen Informationen im Internet am Beispiel von Wikipedia. Psychologische Rundschau, 68, 172-176. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000360
  • Stürmer, S., Oeberst, A., Trötschel, R., & Decker, O. (2017). Kommentar zur “Stellungnahme zur Lage des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in der Psychologie” von Rentzsch et al. Psychologische Rundschau, 68(4), 270-272.
  • Oeberst, A. & Goeckenjan, I. (2016). When being wise after the event results in injustice: Evidence for hindsight bias in judges’ negligence assessments. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 22, 271-279. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/law0000091 
  • Goeckenjan, I. & Oeberst, A. (2016). Aus Schaden wird man klug? – Die Bedeutung des Rückschaufehlers (Hindsight Bias) für die strafrechtliche Fahrlässigkeitsbeurteilung. Recht & Psychiatrie, 34, 27-34. https://doi.org/10.1486/rp-01-2016_02 
  • Oeberst, A., & Moskaliuk, J. (2016). Classic conversational norms in modern computer-mediated collaboration. Educational Technology and Society, 19(1), 187-198. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jeductechsoci.19.1.187
  • Gnambs, T., Appel, M., & Oeberst, A. (2015) Red color and risk taking behaviour in online environments. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e:0134033. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134033 
  • Oeberst, A. & Lindner, I. (2015). Unannounced memory tests are not necessarily unexpected by participants. Test expectation and its consequences in the repeated test paradigm. Cognitive Processing, 16, 269-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0663-3 
  • Oeberst, A., & Wu, S. (2015). Interrogative compliance and self-construal: Intra- and cross-cultural evidence. Personality and Individual Differences, 85, 50-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.038 
  • Oeberst, A. (2015). How good are future lawyers in judging the accuracy of reminiscent details? The estimation-observation gap in eyewitness accounts. European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 7, 73-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpal.2015.03.002 
  • Kimmerle, J., Moskaliuk, J., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2015). Learning and knowledge construction with social media. Educational Psychologist, 50, 120-137. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00461520.2015.1036273 
  • Oeberst, A., Gnambs, T., & Haberstroh, S. (2015). Not really the same: Computerized and real lotteries in decision making research. Computers in Human Behavior, 44, 250-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.10.060 
  • Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., & Nestler, S. (2014). Reading about explanations enhances perceptions of inevitability and foreseeability. A cross-cultural study with Wikipedia articles. Cognitive Processing, 15, 343-349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-014-0603-7
  • Schweiger, S., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2014). Confirmation Bias in Web-Based Search: A Randomized Online Study on the Effects of Expert Information and Social Tags on Information Search and Evaluation. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16, 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3044
  • Oeberst, A., Halatchliyski, I., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2014). Knowledge Construction in Wikipedia: A Systemic-Constructivist Analysis. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 23, 149-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2014.888352
  • Oeberst, A., & Haberstroh, S. (2014). Do we overestimate relatively or absolutely rare events? Paired distinctiveness in experience based decisions. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 73, 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000138
  • Oeberst, A., & Seidemann, J. (2014). Will your words become mine? Underlying processes and co-witness intimacy in the memory conformity paradigm. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 84-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cep0000014 
  • Oeberst, A. (2012). If anything else comes to mind… better keep it to yourself? Delayed recall is discrediting – unjustifiably. Law and Human Behavior, 36, 366-374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10979-011-9282-4 
  • Oeberst, A. & Blank, H. (2012). Undoing suggestive influence: The reversibility of the misinformation effect. Cognition, 125, 141-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.009 
  • Oeberst, A. (2011). Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst (und was vielleicht nicht existiert) – scheinbare Ursachen und reale Konsequenzen. InMind, 3. https://de.in-mind.org/article/ich-sehe-was-was-du-nicht-siehst-und-was-vielleicht-nicht-existiert-scheinbare-ursachen-und